Showing posts with label hong kong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hong kong. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Bishop Michael Curry says Hong Kong represents the Anglican way of being in partnership

From Anglican News-

 Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, of the US based Episcopal Church, has paid tribute to a “growing” Anglican church in Hong Kong, during his first official visit to the Anglican Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui.

Bishop Curry said the strength of the Anglican church in Hong Kong and in the rest of Asia, reinforced his belief that relationships centered in the gospel are essential to missional partnerships:

“Christianity is growing here, Anglicanism is growing here in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a critical relationship in being in real relationship with Asia, and it’s clearly a relationship of equals and that becomes a model or a template for other relationships as well,” said Bishop Curry.

“The archbishop [Paul Kwong] is a leader in the Anglican Communion,  a real statesmen, both in Asia and around the Communion,” said Bishop Curry. “Hong Kong represents, in many respects, the Anglican way of being in relationship and partnership having agreement on essentials, but creating space for disagreement on matters that are nonessential to the gospel itself.”


More here-

http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/03/bishop-michael-curry-says-hong-kong-represents-the-anglican-way-of-being-in-partnership.aspx

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Hong Kong archbishop elected to chair Anglican Consultative Council

From ENS-

The Anglican Consultative Council April 15 elected Hong Kong Archbishop Paul Kwong to be its next chair.

Kwong, the second and current archbishop and primate of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, said at a brief news conference after his election, that he was “deeply honored and humbled” to be elected. He called the job a “huge responsibility to serve the ACC and the communion, together with the delegates” and also with the Instruments of Communion.


“The most important issue is to hold the communion together,” Kwong said, adding that people with different opinions on the issues facing the communion must find ways to come together for what he called the communion’s objective of existence, which is for mission.


“We have to make the communion be relevant to the world, to the people that we are called by God to serve,” he said.


More here-

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/04/15/hong-kong-archbishop-kwong-elected-so-chair-anglican-consultative-council/

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

‘That’s irresponsible’: Hong Kong’s top Anglican rejects calls to give up Christian seats on body electing city’s chief executive

From Hong Kong-

Protestants must not give up their 10 seats on the body that could decide Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s re-election if he runs next year, the archbishop of the Hong Kong Anglican Church has said, rejecting a call to boycott the influential committee.

In a rare interview, his second since taking over the helm at the church in 2007, the Most Reverend Paul Kwong told the Post that, contrary to accusations, he was not a government yes-man. He claimed he had, behind closed doors, urged officials to communicate with different sectors and explain their policies more clearly and frequently.


Kwong declined to say if he supported Leung’s re-election, but he said he believed the chief executive “loves Hong Kong”.


More here-

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1931390/thats-irresponsible-hong-kongs-top-anglican-rejects-calls

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Hong Kong Anglican Archbishop Calls for 'Dialogue' to Resolve Political Crisis

From Christian Post-

The leader of the Anglican Church of Hong Kong has issued a statement calling for "dialogue" between pro-democracy protestors and government officials.

Archbishop Paul Kwong issued the statement Tuesday where he said that he was "saddened and distressed by the increasing social conflict."

"In order to engage in real dialogue, we need to develop greater trust in one another. However this is not yet happening," stated Kwong.

"Our clergy and laity, and all people in Hong Kong share the gravity of the situation, and acknowledge the present ordeal as an extraordinarily difficult time of trial. We will face a situation of deep internal conflict and division for a long time to come."


More here-

http://www.christianpost.com/news/hong-kong-anglican-archbishop-calls-for-dialogue-to-resolve-political-crisis-128099/ñ

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Mission trip will take Lowery to Hong Kong

From Albany-

It's not that Sara Lowery's expectations are low as she prepares for a yearlong mission trip to Hong Kong to advocate for migrant Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers who are often subject to legal, sexual and financial abuses after leaving their families in search of a better life.
 

It's just that Lowery is a realist.
 

"At our training for this mission trip, a man who specializes in African and Arab relations and has trained more than 10,000 peacekeepers told us one of the hardest things about what he does is remaining whole doing something you're ultimately going to fail at," Lowery, a 22-year-old recent graduate of Sewanee, Tenn.'s University of the South, said. "He told us the story of a frog sitting before a growing bonfire who kept throwing drops of water on the fire, although they were too insignificant to have any impact.
 

"The frog said, 'I may fail, but at least I'll be able to say I did everything I could do.' That's the approach I'm taking."
 

Sara Lowery, whose father, the Rev. Lee Lowery, became rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Albany four months ago, will leave for her Hong Kong mission on Aug. 20 as part of the Young Adult Service Corps of the Episcopal Church. YASC is a division of global partnerships with the national Episcopal Church that focuses on connecting people through the Anglican Communion by sending young people ages 21-30 to serve as missionaries in foreign dioceses.

More here-

http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/jul/20/mission-trip-will-take-lowery-to-hong-kong/

Monday, February 25, 2013

Priests' plagiarism sees exodus from Anglican church

From Hong Kong-

St John's Cathedral appears to be fighting a losing battle against plagiarising priests - a practise that has already led 17 families of believers to leave the Anglican church.

A former parishioner at the Emmanuel Church in Pok Fu Lam, a St John's affiliate, said four priests were guilty of using sermons from the internet and preaching them as if they were their own.

He said they had been doing so for 18 months.

The Very Reverend Matthias Der, the new dean of the cathedral, confirmed that some priests had persisted with their plagiarism despite his warnings against the practice at his first meeting with them in September.

"There is still bad practice in some of the priests," Der said on Friday, without confirming the number of clergy involved.

"I told my clergy that any kind of use of outside sources needs to be attributed," Der said of the September meeting.

"I understand that when we do research, we will look at other people's writing, but if we are using direct quotes then we need to attribute them. Plagiarism is not acceptable."

More here-


http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1157292/priests-plagiarism-sees-exodus-anglican-church

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Church leaders hit out at 'selfish' Hong Kong


From Hong Kong-

The leaders of Hong Kong's Anglican and Catholic churches yesterday denounced the "selfishness" of a city beset by a widening gap between rich and poor, saying the quest for personal wealth was inconsistent with the true spirit of Christmas.

Seizing on last month's deadly fire in Mong Kok's Fa Yuen Street market as an example, Anglican archbishop Paul Kwong (pictured) said in his holiday message to the city that Hongkongers' selfishness was at the root of some of this year's most controversial issues.

Kwong accused the Fa Yuen Street hawkers in particular of being "cold-blooded" for protesting against plans to dismantle their stalls at night, a safety measure proposed after the fire broke out in the market in the early hours of November 30 .

He said their protests had shown they were more worried about their businesses than the victims of a fire that killed nine people - a number some dismissed as "a trivial matter".

More here-

http://topics.scmp.com/news/hk-news-watch/article/Church-leaders-hit-out-at-selfish-Hong-Kong